Peruvian-based Catholic movement pledges inquiry after claims of abuse

Accountability
Oct 23, 2015

Accusations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse by leaders of a Catholic movement founded here in the 1970s led the group to pledge an internal investigation.

Colombians who flee to Ecuador face discrimination, and fear remains

World
Aug 28, 2015

 About 1,000 people a month cross the border from Colombia into Ecuador, seeking refuge from armed violence.

Peruvian parish follows the flow of the river

World
Jul 28, 2015

The Amazon region is full of huge parishes with not enough church workers to minister among communities struggling to come to terms with change.

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Climate encyclical expected to send strong moral message to the world

World
Environment
Eco Catholic
Jun 8, 2015

Pope Francis' upcoming encyclical on ecology and climate is expected to send a strong moral message -- one message that could make some readers uncomfortable, some observers say.

"The encyclical will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible exploitation of nature and the consequences for people's life and health," Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, told Catholic News Service.